November 5th, 2021 
Stuart H&C Raw Material – The Desk Tapes.
Today we commence a series of 15 recordings culled from a total of 307 (!) unreleased desk tapes. These are authentic historical records of full concerts recorded to stereo tapes at the front of house desk from 1981 through to 1998. These are from Rob, Jack and John’s collections to the True Believers.
First up we have the first concert – 40 years ago now from 1981 at the Crystal Ballroom in Melbourne. It was a rough old tape – but an important artefact. Parts of it were included previously on the Spare Parts CD in the Horn of Plenty CD/DVD box set.
In the coming weeks and months, we will be visiting a range of venues across a range of locations to fill every gap in the Hunnas story as a live band.
The chosen selections complement the official professional recordings already available – The Way To Go Out (The Venue, Melbourne, 1984), Living in Large Rooms and Lounges (The Continental and others, 1995), Under One Roof (Selinas, Sydney, 1998) and Live 2014 (The Palais, Melbourne). All can be found on streaming audio, including Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music and Apple Music.
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I might have gotten here a touch too early, but I’m curious all the same as to what this is doing here!
It’s nice to have a copy of all the original CD tracks in any case; was a bit of an odd experience to pair the Vault Tracks and Spare Parts Tracks together, what with the different mastering and the duplicate band intro.
Either way, here’s hoping there’s some rumblings of new (old) material from the band, what with the COVID downtime and all. Still putting my hand up for a complete Jetsonnes recordings!
Ha, hilarious.
This is an experiment and concept created an entire two hours ago to test audio playlists in WordPress. Given all tracks were in Spare Parts or let loose in The Vault, it is in the endearing words of Douglas Adams, hopefully “mostly harmless.”
More importantly, did it work on every device at hand? 😛
What am I doing? Who knows. Not sure myself. Have a good one 🙂
Here we go, Matt… 🙂 🙂 🙂
Oh wow!
I was at this gig. It was a fund raiser for an ill American muso, Phil Litman who performed as Snakefinger. Phil had survived a heart attack after a Melb Uni gig a week or so earlier and needed funds to get home. H & C were unknown and if I recall correctly a late addition to the bill. They made a strong impression and I remember telling some mates a day or so after the show to keep a look out for this Aussie version of Talking Heads! That was the best comparison I could make to try and engender interest. Listening to this again – wow, they had IT from the off!